It's fun if you decide to get into mischief. You know those kids who set ants alight with a magnifying glass and the sun? A synchrotron is much better. Muhahahaha!!!!
No, he's going to get roasted. I've been waiting for a patent troll to piss off the wrong person. Looks like that day has arrived. I guess I never thought it would be Oprah Winfrey though.
I'm feeling very ambivalent about this study. Sure, walking down a busy street requires concentration. And? If you look at it this way, it's actively improving your concentration.
The truth is that most people work in office buildings that are not that busy, and they only spend a tiny fraction of their day in a busy and distracting environment. Honestly, this sounds like a study that was trying to find evidence that supports a predetermined conclusion.
No, I genuinely think your post was informative and interesting. I currently have mod points, and if I was able to mod in a story I'd commented on I'd give you +1 informative.
I always hate it when people talk about improved performance in general. I'm curious about what specific features of the 2.6 kernel you feel he would benefit from?
I don't own a Zune, and probably never will. What I did find was the sourcecode on Pastie, so I commented on it to explain why the problem occured. That was the frequently asked question: why did it occur? And I have explained why it occured.
Try to be more clear in future. You did say "they have a detailed FAQ which explains the issue in detail", and they have explained how to "fix it". And in four years time, none of those Zunes will be operational I suspect.
Meh. My karma is excellent, therefore I post with a score of 2. What can I say? You post as an AC, you post with a score of 0.
Interesting though. So they finally have sorted it out in Vista and Windows Server 2008. How many years has this taken now? And what about deployments of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP? Is there a hotfix planned for these operating systems?
I find it very amusing that Microsoft follow the ANSI standard, yet they cannot handle daylight savings time in any useful fashion. Unlike Unix, which has tzdata to note the different changes in DST between regions, Microsoft only stores the start of DST and the end of DST for the current year. So when governments change DST for one year they need to issue a patch to change DST, but then they need to issue a new patch after the DST ends to switch it back to normal.
This, of course, plays havoc for Exchange calendaring and any software that relies on accurate times to schedule in meetings, etc. So nice going Microsoft, you STILL can't get it right even though you have brought out Windows Server 2008 and you are soon to release Windows 7. Just how hard could it be to FIX this?
You are kidding right? The guy says that because of a perception of immaturity the Sun developers "voluntarily abstained from integrating the code that was already committed to the repository. There was really nothing that would have prevented them from taking the code as in fact it was already provided and committed under the JCA. But they didn't want to harm the project by giving others a reason to start a public quarrel about "stealing code", even if it was as pointless as in this case.
This is reasonably ironic, given that what is being said is the most immature response I'd seen in some time. Sun, go away. Let someone else develop a Word killer who is more nimble. If the Samba project can reverse engineer network protocols, then I don't see why someone like KOffice or AbiWord with enough eyes couldn't do it - and they could probably do it faster, and with an easier framework too.
Really? I learned that Windows needs to be rebooted twice - still! Way to go Microsoft - billions spent in developing software and they still can't get the installer right.
Yes, yes, that's Nix vs Hedden and it was ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. The court ruled that in the common parlance of the time a tomato was seen to be a vegetable and not a "fruit of the vine", working from the assumption that most people at it for a main course instead of a dessert. I think that if you were going to pick up on the ridiculous nature of the case you'd focus on the reason behind the court case — that taxes needed to be paid on imported vegetables and yet not on imported fruit.
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It's fun if you decide to get into mischief. You know those kids who set ants alight with a magnifying glass and the sun? A synchrotron is much better. Muhahahaha!!!!
No, he's going to get roasted. I've been waiting for a patent troll to piss off the wrong person. Looks like that day has arrived. I guess I never thought it would be Oprah Winfrey though.
I deal with all those things on a daily basis. Nope, it's not that bad.
I'm feeling very ambivalent about this study. Sure, walking down a busy street requires concentration. And? If you look at it this way, it's actively improving your concentration.
The truth is that most people work in office buildings that are not that busy, and they only spend a tiny fraction of their day in a busy and distracting environment. Honestly, this sounds like a study that was trying to find evidence that supports a predetermined conclusion.
The protester is probably muslim.
No, I genuinely think your post was informative and interesting. I currently have mod points, and if I was able to mod in a story I'd commented on I'd give you +1 informative.
Jon even. Oops.
OK, so who holds the copyright, so we can tell Noh "Maddog" Hall?
Good to know that there won't be any elections on the 1st of January of a leap year then.
Sadly for you the original poster has already admitted to bullshitting.
But thanks for the info, very informative.
I always hate it when people talk about improved performance in general. I'm curious about what specific features of the 2.6 kernel you feel he would benefit from?
I don't own a Zune, and probably never will. What I did find was the sourcecode on Pastie, so I commented on it to explain why the problem occured. That was the frequently asked question: why did it occur? And I have explained why it occured.
Good to see they are releasing a firmware update.
Where did he say that he paid Microsoft?
Try to be more clear in future. You did say "they have a detailed FAQ which explains the issue in detail", and they have explained how to "fix it". And in four years time, none of those Zunes will be operational I suspect.
In what way did he answer his own question?
Meh. My karma is excellent, therefore I post with a score of 2. What can I say? You post as an AC, you post with a score of 0.
Interesting though. So they finally have sorted it out in Vista and Windows Server 2008. How many years has this taken now? And what about deployments of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP? Is there a hotfix planned for these operating systems?
I have a better FAQ - see my blog. Crap code on a monumental scale!
The video was pretty freaking hilarious as well!
I find it very amusing that Microsoft follow the ANSI standard, yet they cannot handle daylight savings time in any useful fashion. Unlike Unix, which has tzdata to note the different changes in DST between regions, Microsoft only stores the start of DST and the end of DST for the current year. So when governments change DST for one year they need to issue a patch to change DST, but then they need to issue a new patch after the DST ends to switch it back to normal.
This, of course, plays havoc for Exchange calendaring and any software that relies on accurate times to schedule in meetings, etc. So nice going Microsoft, you STILL can't get it right even though you have brought out Windows Server 2008 and you are soon to release Windows 7. Just how hard could it be to FIX this?
Oh, I don't know. "What you think is sheep shit .... it's really Tasty Wheat" seems about right to me.
You are kidding right? The guy says that because of a perception of immaturity the Sun developers "voluntarily abstained from integrating the code that was already committed to the repository. There was really nothing that would have prevented them from taking the code as in fact it was already provided and committed under the JCA. But they didn't want to harm the project by giving others a reason to start a public quarrel about "stealing code", even if it was as pointless as in this case.
This is reasonably ironic, given that what is being said is the most immature response I'd seen in some time. Sun, go away. Let someone else develop a Word killer who is more nimble. If the Samba project can reverse engineer network protocols, then I don't see why someone like KOffice or AbiWord with enough eyes couldn't do it - and they could probably do it faster, and with an easier framework too.
Really? I learned that Windows needs to be rebooted twice - still! Way to go Microsoft - billions spent in developing software and they still can't get the installer right.
Yes, yes, that's Nix vs Hedden and it was ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. The court ruled that in the common parlance of the time a tomato was seen to be a vegetable and not a "fruit of the vine", working from the assumption that most people at it for a main course instead of a dessert. I think that if you were going to pick up on the ridiculous nature of the case you'd focus on the reason behind the court case — that taxes needed to be paid on imported vegetables and yet not on imported fruit.
As I say: ironic, huh?
P.S. In case you think that Bryan Cantrill quote is made up, check it out yourself on Google groups: